1,121 Quotes About Authority

Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else's simply because I know why I said what I said.

...people quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression...

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.

There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

The nature of the ego is to misuse whatever authority one has.

Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.

The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did in that of human thought generally. Its effect was to demolish a multitude of dogmatic barriers by a single stroke, and to arouse a spirit of rebellion against all ancient authorities whose positive and unauthenticated statements were contradicted by modern science.

That delicious moment when you realize people are reading your updates when they update their status with terms that only you know how to use them.

The speaker calls for a careful examination of Christ's principle of turning the other cheek before we use it as a demand or excuse for total personal pacifism. After all, when literally struck on the cheek, Jesus did question the legitimacy of the authority by which this was done.